Volodymyr Sichynskyi

Who was Volodymyr Sichynskyi?

Volodymyr Sichynskyi was a Ukrainian émigré architect, graphic artist, and art historian.

Volodymyr Sichynskyi was born to the family of Ievtym Sitsinskyi in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia guberniya, Russia, which is in present-day Ukraine.

He graduated from the Kamianets Technical School in 1912, and then continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers and at Charles University in Prague. During the interim between St. Petersburg and Prague, he taught at the Kamianets Gymnasium, helped organize the Architectural Institute in Kiev and served as director of the construction department of the Podolia Governorate.

After fleeing from Soviet rule to Lviv, he taught at the Academic Gymnasium there and then moved to Prague. In Prague, he worked on his doctoral degree, taught at the art-school "Studio", and served as a lecturer of the history of art at the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute. He received his Ph.D. and was promoted to the rank of professor on October 5, 1927.

He also chaired the Library and Bibliographic Commission of the Ukrainian Society of Bibliophiles in Prague from 1927 and served as the society's president. In 1930 he co-founded the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists in Lviv. From 1930 he was also a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. Sichynskyi was appointed an assistant professor of art history on January 25, 1940 at the Ukrainian Free University, and then was promoted to associate professor on March 22, 1942.